Futureofwork

So what do digital technologies and the Internet mean for the future of work? That was the topic of last year's Information Roundtable at the Aspen Institute's Communications and Society Program, an annual event that brings together some heavyweight businesspeople, technologies and academics to discuss a breaking issue.

Commentary on Future of Work and leadership

Earlier today, I stumbled on this bit of research on the Gartner site; while it dates back to August there's some interesting speculation about the Future of Work. "People will swarm more often and work solo less.

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A nonprofit research center that specializes in long-term forecasting recently released a report detailing the 10 key skills that will be relevant to the workforce of the future. What are they, and are our schools doing enough to instill them? What are the jobs of the future?

The Technology Horizons Program's research on the Future of Work comes at an exciting time for the intersection of work and technology. Technology has become integrated into virtually every aspect of work. And because we spend so much time working, work really is the place where we most directly feel the impact of developing technologies.

In the 2011 inaugural MBO Partners Independent Workforce Index, a study of independent professionals in America, it is clear that the cataclysmic workforce shifts of the past decades have fueled a new kind of productivity, wealth and personal growth opportunity for American workers and companies.

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The work world of the next several decades will be significantly different from the work world of the last two decades in at least three key ways: * There will be a dramatic and rapid shift in the capabilities of technology that reduces the costs of coordinating activities and sharing ideas. * There will be a set of economic activities that is shifting away from the 20th-century industrial or manufacturing-based model and mass-consumer brands to a model based on knowledge and co-creation between consumers and suppliers. * There will be new patterns of demand for talent and skills in which many individuals, particularly those with higher levels of education, will have the leverage to create work arrangements that are more conducive to adult growth than were possible before.

Thanks to everyone who came to Podio HQ and kicked off the new year with a great meetup. Our guest speakers; Ingrid Haug, founder of Usable Machine and Claus Bindslev, owner of Bindslev Nextstep, gave a great insite into how work tools and organisations are changing towards the Future of Work.

The 30th ISPSO Annual Meeting will explore the Future of Work from a psychoanalytic perspective. How do we now understand what is 'work' in the light of globalization, networked communities, instant information, demographic, technological and climate change? The centre of gravity of global enterprise has shifted southwards, opening new markets and creating new wealth but the gulf has widened between those have employment and those who are unable to gain entry into the world of work. 'Unwork'; unpaid, insecure non-­‐ employment is the norm for millions; what are the implicationsof this?

A growing number of workers are becoming increasingly concerned about the future viability of their jobs (if they have them) and, in many cases, that of their professions.

By James H. Lee Jobs are disappearing, but there's still a future for work. An investment manager looks at how automation and information technology are changing the economic landscape and forcing workers to forge new career paths beyond outdated ideas about permanent employment.

There's been a lot of talk about the future of work. But what exactly is it? Although the future is tough to predict, especially at the speed with which we are all moving, there are some common elements that have started to emerge.

The next decade will see more people and constrained resources but better connectivity and a shift in economic power to Asia. How will this affect the world we live in? What are the other big issues for the next decade? These are concerns that individuals, companies and governments need to address.

The recent book, Race Against The Machine, has caught the imagination of a growing body of readers. It's an important book, but it doesn't go far enough in highlighting the root causes of the unemployment we are experiencing.

This is a presentation by Marshall Brain, founder of How Stuff Works. He's written more extensively on the subject in an essay called Robotic Nation, which I haven't read yet. I think Brain might be overestimating the ability of machine-vision and natural language processing to supplant human intelligence, but the general trend towards fewer and fewer jobs is real one that I've written about a lot lately.

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We travelled the world to learn about the Future of Work. And we learned a lot! We want to share the highlights from our US panel sessions with you and the rest of the world. For the panels we got together thirteen world class thinkers within the field of work.